What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Specialist - Scheduler and Orchestrators position at Squarepoint Capital?
Department : Application Engineering
Position Overview :
As a Platform Applications Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology.
In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain automated platform solutions and services used across the firm. You will also be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling Platform infrastructure, and automating everyday tasks with scripting and configuration management tools. Your experience will be valuable to the more junior team members.
As a member of the Schedulers stream, you will be responsible for ensuring the excellence of the most compute-intensive pieces of infrastructure in the company. You will have the opportunity to shape both the architecture and user experience to offer the most out of our platform.
Required Qualifications :
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline.
- 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
- Experience with software development (Python, Git)
- Experience with system administration (Bash, Linux, Containerization)
- Deep knowledge of HPC (e.g. Slurm) or orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
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